So I'm thinking we will do some mutual fund and ETF investing but that I would like around 80% of each portfolio to be focused on dividend stocks, that can generate a cash flow regardless of the market performance and eventually provide sufficient funds to build the portfolio every month or act as an income stream possibly in our retirement.

So my thought was to build two portfolios with different stocks from this list that I had come up with of potential stocks that I have grouped by similarity. So for example, we may both have a stock from the transport industry but one portfolio may hold TMA (a trucking company) while the other holds CNR (a railway company).

There's a lot of companies listed here. My first thought was regarding position size and commissions. You don't need to tell us how much you have, but I'm hoping you're not paying $10 commissions each to buy $500 worth of each company. That's an exaggeration, but you get my point...

(04-27-2016, 09:22 AM)DividendGarden Wrote: There's a lot of companies listed here. My first thought was regarding position size and commissions. You don't need to tell us how much you have, but I'm hoping you're not paying $10 commissions each to buy $500 worth of each company. That's an exaggeration, but you get my point...

I use Questrade so I believe the commission is ~$5. I was thinking $500 for each initial buy, figured as I'm intending to hold for the next ~40 years commissions wouldn't be a big deal (~$70 for initial positions to start the portfolio, would likely make larger additions once the portfolios are going).

Since you're wanting this to generate cash flow and produce an income stream, why is GOOG one of the stocks you are going to put into the plans? Currently it doesn't pay a dividend. Are you expecting them to pay one in the future?